Tropescilloscope: Mundane Made Awesome

Ordinary, mediocre and everyday tasks made EPIC. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Love Triangle Reality Has No Subtitles Disappeared Dad Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Captain Obvious The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Final Girl Real Life Flipping the Bird Stealth Hi/Bye Adapted Out Bad Boss Bi the Way Gold Digger Mama Bear The Alleged Car Honor Before Reason Bond One-Liner Bare Your Midriff Offscreen Teleportation Shell-Shocked Veteran An Axe to Grind The Faceless Rule of Cool Romantic False Lead Anguished Declaration of Love Disney Villain Death Kids Are Cruel Back from the Dead Batman Gambit Dissonant Serenity Title Drop Truth in Television MacGuffin Ass Shove Killed Mid-Sentence Running Gag Dropped a Bridge on Him Sexy Discretion Shot Disproportionate Retribution Shut Up, Hannibal! Berserk Button Does This Remind You of Anything? Military and Warfare Films Greater-Scope Villain The Lost Lenore Refuge in Audacity Better to Die than Be Killed Film Noir Chase Scene Decoy Protagonist Major Injury Underreaction Evil Counterpart Historical-Domain Character Dramatic Irony Big "NO!" Gilligan Cut The Great Depression Mr. Fanservice Affectionate Parody Irony Fire-Forged Friends Tranquil Fury timeperiod Parental Substitute Spared by the Adaptation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face True Companions Ghost Fiction Parental Incest Large Ham Agony of the Feet The Musical Zombie Stories Dual Wielding Tempting Fate Put on a Bus Cool Car The Atoner Pimped-Out Dress Missing Mom Adult Fear Camera Abuse Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Pyrrhic Victory Parental Neglect All There in the Script Only a Flesh Wound Big Eater Adorkable Properly Paranoid Character Development The Chick Cat Scare Redshirt Army O.O.C. Is Serious Business Tap on the Head Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bavarian Fire Drill Music Stories Jerkass Anyone Can Die Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? The Remake Badass Boast Obviously Evil German Films The Starscream Stylistic Suck Cruel and Unusual Death Butt-Monkey Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Get Out! Mood Whiplash Driven to Suicide War Is Hell Offscreen Moment of Awesome Smoking Is Cool Villain Song Crapsack World Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Beauty Is Never Tarnished Developing Doomed Characters Race Lift Suspiciously Similar Substitute Deliberately Monochrome Fingore Death by Sex Gone Horribly Right Early-Bird Cameo This Is Gonna Suck As the Good Book Says... Rich Bitch Male Frontal Nudity Important Haircut Anti-Villain B-Movie How We Got Here Badass Bookworm Sole Survivor Bait-and-Switch Abusive Parents Dull Surprise Stepford Smiler Henpecked Husband Grey and Gray Morality Almost Kiss Easily Forgiven Up to Eleven Didn't Think This Through Dramedy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Guns Akimbo Riddle for the Ages Arch-Enemy Costume Porn The Hero Dies Face–Heel Turn All Just a Dream The Sociopath All Girls Want Bad Boys Action Prologue Visual Pun Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Ditz Black Comedy Kill 'em All Too Dumb to Live Have a Gay Old Time Crazy-Prepared Getting Crap Past the Radar Dirty Old Man Villain Ball Brother–Sister Incest Rape as Drama Loads and Loads of Characters Fatal Flaw Scary Black Man Meaningful Echo Bullying a Dragon Alas, Poor Villain Kick the Dog Insult Backfire Corpsing La Résistance Mighty Whitey Epic Movie Big Bad Actor Allusion Camp Gay Moment Killer Hong Kong Films Adaptational Attractiveness And I Must Scream Sequel Hook Foreshadowing Fun with Acronyms Italian Films Silence Is Golden Creative Closing Credits Soft Glass No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Malevolent Masked Men Daylight Horror Disney Death Never Found the Body Index of Film Westerns The Ghost Bowdlerise Blatant Lies Papa Wolf No Antagonist Four-Temperament Ensemble Dark Reprise Homage Despair Event Horizon You Have Failed Me Evil Is Petty Police are Useless Bad "Bad Acting" Big Damn Heroes Artistic License – Physics Corrupt Corporate Executive Australian Movies Rousing Speech Novelization Television Movie Index Drives Like Crazy Exact Words Film Noir Index Slap-Slap-Kiss Belligerent Sexual Tension Taking You with Me Needs Wiki Magic Love Gory Discretion Shot Non-Indicative Name Abhorrent Admirer Married to the Job Dark Is Not Evil Adaptational Heroism Worthy Opponent In Medias Res Straight Gay Hero Antagonist Dark Action Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Breaking the Fourth Wall Manipulative Bastard Ungrateful Bastard From Bad to Worse Bring My Brown Pants BFG Crucified Hero Shot Humiliation Conga Epic Fail Artistic License – Gun Safety Captain Ersatz A.I. Is a Crapshoot Neck Snap Accidental Murder I Have Your Wife Room Full of Crazy Monumental Damage Black Best Friend Our Vampires Are Different And the Adventure Continues Death Seeker Together in Death Superhero Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Never Trust a Trailer Paper-Thin Disguise Not What It Looks Like An Aesop Imagine Spot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Is Hammy Mistaken for Gay Red Herring Not So Stoic Age Lift Setting Update Stalker with a Crush Off-into-the-Distance Ending Freudian Excuse Older Than They Look Historical Hero Upgrade Adaptational Villainy Artistic License – Military You Have Outlived Your Usefulness More Dakka Everyone Has Standards Credits Gag Film Series Body Horror The '80s Evil vs. Evil Leave the Camera Running World of Ham Gorn Chekhov's Gunman Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bottomless Magazines Canon Foreigner Demonic Possession Psycho for Hire Enemy Mine The Big Guy Science Fiction Films Interrupted Suicide Wham Line Totally Radical Adaptation Expansion Even Evil Has Standards Covers Always Lie All Men Are Perverts My Beloved Smother Spiteful Spit Amusing Injuries Reasonable Authority Figure Mundane Made Awesome A Father to His Men Pragmatic Villainy Cluster F-Bomb Cassandra Truth No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Stinger Villain with Good Publicity Mythology Gag Well-Intentioned Extremist Heterosexual Life-Partners Dramatic Gun Cock Karmic Death Those Wacky Nazis Genre Savvy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Take a Third Option Distracted by the Sexy Bond Villain Stupidity Deadpan Snarker Historical In-Joke Dwindling Party Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Leaning on the Fourth Wall Unusually Uninteresting Sight Earn Your Happy Ending Trailers Always Spoil In Name Only Madness Mantra Aluminum Christmas Trees Silent Movie Failed a Spot Check Took a Level in Jerkass Comically Missing the Point Roaring Rampage of Revenge French Films Asshole Victim Arc Words Plot Hole Black and Gray Morality Undying Loyalty Lampshade Hanging Eyepatch of Power The Load Meet Cute Chekhov's Skill Ambiguous Ending For Want of a Nail Big Bad Duumvirate Dying Moment of Awesome Canadian Movies Made of Explodium Betty and Veronica Disguised in Drag Curse Cut Short Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Genre Throwback Hypocritical Humor Vacation Films Bloodless Carnage Biopic Fake Shemp I Did What I Had to Do Black Dude Dies First Dumb Blonde Revenge Twist Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Rule of Three Evil Laugh Fainting Unusual Euphemism Stealth Pun Darkest Hour Big Fancy House Tagline Continuity Nod Ripped from the Headlines Be Careful What You Wish For The Alcoholic Vitriolic Best Buds Country Matters The Bully The Film of the Book Sinister Minister Black Comedy Rape The '60s Heroic Sacrifice The Stoner Anachronic Order Psychopathic Manchild Big-Bad Ensemble Line-of-Sight Name Cat Fight Serious Business Meaningful Background Event Double Entendre Implacable Man Ambiguously Gay Manly Tears Eye Scream My God, What Have I Done? Sports Stories Calling the Old Man Out Chuck Cunningham Syndrome It's Personal Frame-Up Martial Arts Movie Video Credits Rule of Funny Time Skip I'm a Humanitarian Made of Iron Wham Shot Whole Plot Reference As Himself Diabolus ex Machina Based on a True Story Lighter and Softer Central Theme Say My Name Jerk Jock What the Hell, Hero? Fanservice Extra Smug Snake Broken Aesop Adaptational Badass Nice Guy Star-Crossed Lovers Combat Pragmatist Broken Pedestal The Casanova Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil An Arm and a Leg Bald of Evil Rule of Symbolism He Knows Too Much Ominous Latin Chanting Brainless Beauty Aside Glance Wrong Genre Savvy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fat Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink The '90s Defiant to the End Stock Footage Children Are Innocent Ax-Crazy Pretty in Mink Peek-a-Boo Corpse Blood Knight The Lancer Nice Hat Famous Last Words Karma Houdini The '50s Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Foil Mystery and Detective Films Obstructive Bureaucrat Jitter Cam Knight Templar Deus ex Machina Ms. Fanservice What Happened to the Mouse? Darker and Edgier Celebrity Paradox Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Nothing Is Scarier Christmas Movies Index Not So Above It All Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Unwitting Instigator of Doom No Name Given Our Zombies Are Different Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Advertised Extra Fish out of Water Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Documentary Sadistic Choice Posthumous Character Gender Flip Friend to All Children Downer Ending Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Vamp Mad Scientist Men Are the Expendable Gender Love at First Sight Shower Scene Stuff Blowing Up Improbable Aiming Skills Same Language Dub Meaningful Name Light Is Not Good Scenery Gorn Cain and Abel Yandere Unreliable Narrator Villain Opening Scene Defrosting Ice Queen Red Right Hand After the End Demoted to Extra Due to the Dead '80s Hair Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Brother Instinct Bloody Hilarious Never My Fault Alliterative Name Action Genre Logo Joke Drill Sergeant Nasty Casting Gag Every Car Is a Pinto Only Sane Man Poor Communication Kills Ascended Extra Kubrick Stare From Nobody to Nightmare Fiery Redhead What You Are in the Dark Thriller Sassy Black Woman Historical Villain Upgrade Very Loosely Based on a True Story folderlabel Badass Longcoat Destination Defenestration No Ending Shirtless Scene Improvised Weapon Rasputinian Death "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Boom, Headshot! Neck Lift Coming-of-Age Story Here We Go Again! Sequel Escalation Anti-Hero Retcon Knife Nut Pretty Little Headshots Expy It Can Think Naked People Are Funny Evil Sounds Deep Dirty Cop Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Woman Scorned Attempted Rape Product Placement Flashback Let's Get Dangerous! The Smart Guy One-Man Army Throwing Your Sword Always Works Artistic License – Law Pre-Asskicking One-Liner My Greatest Failure 20 Minutes into the Future Dirty Coward Rated M for Manly Call-Forward Car Fu Dark and Troubled Past Really Gets Around As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mercy Kill Off with His Head! Intergenerational Friendship Chekhov's Gun Works Set in World War II Empathic Environment Politically Incorrect Villain Cool Old Lady Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hypocrite Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cloudcuckoolander Take That! Eldritch Abomination Deconstruction Villainous Breakdown Your Cheating Heart The Voiceless Cool Old Guy Green-Eyed Monster Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blood from the Mouth Hooker with a Heart of Gold Overly Long Gag Crazy Jealous Guy Beard of Evil Awesome, but Impractical Femme Fatale Groin Attack Affably Evil Man on Fire Hate Sink Cowboy Cop Evil Plan Action Girl Action Survivor Establishing Character Moment Brutal Honesty Adaptation Distillation There Is No Kill Like Overkill Damsel in Distress She Cleans Up Nicely Death of a Child Wicked Cultured She's Got Legs Does Not Like Shoes Red Eyes, Take Warning Death Glare Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Book-Ends Dutch Angle Market-Based Title Hollywood Law Composite Character Badass Grandpa The Mafia Retired Badass Kill It with Fire Pre-Mortem One-Liner A Date with Rosie Palms Creator Cameo Spanner in the Works Would Hurt a Child Naïve Newcomer Mugging the Monster Punch-Clock Villain Only One Name The Stoic Hollywood Darkness Shout-Out No Celebrities Were Harmed N-Word Privileges Informed Ability Parental Abandonment Babies Ever After Artistic License – History Bar Brawl In the Back Facial Horror Becoming the Mask Animal Motifs One-Word Title Call-Back Badass Normal Break the Haughty Five-Man Band Scare Chord Break the Cutie The X of Y Vomit Discretion Shot Took a Level in Badass Badass in a Nice Suit The Hero Reality Ensues A Minor Kidroduction Jump Scare Deliberate Values Dissonance Fate Worse than Death He Who Fights Monsters Dressing as the Enemy Only in It for the Money The Reveal Sealed Evil in a Can Genre Shift Happily Married As You Know Armor-Piercing Question Soundtrack Dissonance Catapult Nightmare Suspiciously Specific Denial Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Random Events Plot Spiritual Successor Russian Films Show Within a Show All There in the Manual Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Artistic License – Biology Bunny-Ears Lawyer Adaptation Name Change Shipper on Deck Pay Evil unto Evil Precision F-Strike "Well Done, Son!" Guy Not So Different Evil-Detecting Dog The Dog Bites Back Eureka Moment All for Nothing Mind Screw Hero of Another Story Horror Films Apocalypse How The Dragon Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Power of Love Fourth Date Marriage Rewatch Bonus Department of Redundancy Department NO INDOOR VOICE The Bad Guy Wins Heroic BSoD Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Spell My Name with an "S" Face Death with Dignity Sci-Fi Horror You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Adults Are Useless Pet the Dog Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Bloodier and Gorier Drugs Are Bad Match Cut Early Installment Weirdness The Brute Oh, Crap! Insane Troll Logic Playing Gertrude "The Reason You Suck" Speech Danny Peary Cult Movies List Motor Mouth Victoria's Secret Compartment Word of God Narrator Skewed Priorities May–December Romance Jerkass Has a Point Eagleland The Place Your Head A-Splode Once More, with Clarity! Red Shirt Blackmail Insistent Terminology Instant Death Bullet Hope Spot Handicapped Badass Hidden Depths Determinator Heel–Face Turn Self-Deprecation Vampire Fiction Noodle Incident The Chessmaster Double-Meaning Title Dogged Nice Guy Make It Look Like an Accident The End... Or Is It? The Quiet One British Films Wretched Hive Creepy Child Manchild Mexican Standoff Brick Joke Not Quite Dead Morality Pet Foregone Conclusion Fantastic Racism Bolivian Army Ending Funny Background Event A God Am I Maybe Ever After Intrepid Reporter It Will Never Catch On Domestic Abuse Kick the Son of a Bitch Japanese Films Mr. Exposition Catch-Phrase Mooks Toplessness from the Back Faux Affably Evil Small Name, Big Ego Taking the Bullet Overprotective Dad Death by Irony Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Lock and Load Montage "Awesome McCool" Name Determinator aka: The Determinator Framing Device Male Gaze Drowning My Sorrows Bilingual Bonus Faking the Dead Chiaroscuro Public Domain Feature Films Those Two Guys And Starring The Oner Romantic Comedy Sacrificial Lion Beta Couple Police Brutality Beware the Nice Ones Ship Tease Red Oni, Blue Oni Token Minority Gainax Ending The Cavalry Card-Carrying Villain Slasher Smile Heroes Want Redheads Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Jerk with a Heart of Gold Slashed Throat Bland-Name Product Depraved Bisexual The '70s Deal with the Devil Author Avatar Animated Credits Opening Hell Is That Noise Animal Title Index Reality Is Unrealistic Immune to Bullets Alpha Bitch Obfuscating Stupidity Expository Hairstyle Change Villain Protagonist Gratuitous English Improbable Weapon User Punny Name Only Known by Their Nickname Freeze-Frame Bonus Training Montage Death by Adaptation Plucky Comic Relief Not Using the "Z" Word Auto Erotica Re-Cut Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Smurfette Principle Super Strength The Cameo Dies Wide Open Fanservice Unresolved Sexual Tension Cool Shades It's All About Me Left the Background Music On Recycled IN SPACE! Scenery Porn Humans Are Bastards Reckless Gun Usage Translation Convention Heel Realization No OSHA Compliance Redemption Equals Death Amoral Attorney The Dreaded Fantasy Films Daddy's Girl Award-Bait Song Bound and Gagged "Shaggy Dog" Story You Killed My Father Big Applesauce No-Sell Bury Your Gays Extremely Short Timespan Sanity Slippage I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Good Is Not Nice Last-Name Basis Ironic Echo Hoist by His Own Petard Horror Comedy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cool Guns Slasher Movie Suddenly SHOUTING! Psychological Thriller Author Appeal Wounded Gazelle Gambit Extreme Doormat Grievous Bottley Harm Arranged Marriage Cold-Blooded Torture Closed Circle Guile Hero Evil Brit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Laughing Mad Laser-Guided Karma Leitmotif Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Mole Sir Swears-a-Lot Eiffel Tower Effect Fatal Family Photo Woman in White Antagonist Title Conspicuous CG Fan Disservice Protagonist Title Idiot Ball Loophole Abuse One Steve Limit Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Chewing the Scenery Would Hit a Girl Ambiguous Disorder Retirony Outrun the Fireball Did Not Get the Girl Race Against the Clock The Ace Bittersweet Ending Air-Vent Passageway The Un-Reveal Those Two Bad Guys Half the Man He Used to Be Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Shown Their Work Adaptation Dye-Job Anachronism Stew Artistic License – Geography Contrived Coincidence Serial Killer Curb-Stomp Battle Accidental Misnaming Annoying Younger Sibling Actually Pretty Funny Funny Foreigner For the Evulz Pragmatic Adaptation Broken Bird Shoot the Shaggy Dog Storming the Castle Screw the Money, I Have Rules!